The aim of the present study is to explain the problem with the unsuccessful designation of the neotype for the type species of the genus Cyrtonotella and to describe the species which clearly do not belong to that genus.

Because the type specimen of Branta hutchinsii Richardson, from the Melville Peninsula, is lost, and many new subspecies are named in that species, Hanson recognizes the need for a neotype to pin down the range of the nominate subspecies.

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